Alison Lyssa, playwright, writer and poet, discusses her groundbreaking feminist play Pinball. Pinball, a play about a young lesbian couple fighting the patriarchy for custody of one of the women's son, was labelled 'feminist chauvinist piggery' in the Australian Press in the 80s when it was first performed. Now a set-text in universities in the UK and re-staged by Duck Duck Goose in 2014, Pinball and its playwright, Alison Lyssa, remain cutting edge in contemporary Australia.
Lois Austen-Leigh's The Incredible Crime aka the grossness of hunting
A Christmas Carol: or the Case of the Misunderstood Capitalist
FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 3: Frankenstein Goes to the Movies
FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 2: New Perspectives on Frankenstein
FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 1: Revisiting Frankenstein
A Sensational Book: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
Femme Fatales, Marlowe and Gangsters: The (slightly) Nonsensical Plots of Chandler's The Big Sleep
Murderers, Truth vs. Fiction, and a car full of snakes in Truman Capote's "The Handcarved Coffins"
Meredith Lake's The Bible in Australia: A fascinating history of the part the Bible played in shaping Australia
Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was
Lexi Freiman's Inappropriation
The Myth, the Heights, the Poetry and the Dogs: 200 Years of Emily Bronte
Trauma and the Possibility of Change: An Interview with Meera Atkinson
From the Filmhouse with Stephanie and Kirstin: Reviewing Mary Shelley (2018)
How do you solve a problem like Junot Diaz?
Bonus Episode: Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair with Alison Key
Bonus Episode: George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo with Tiana Visnjic
Bonus Episode - IASPR Interview with Jodi McAlister
Bonus Episode - Interview with IASPR Keynote Speakers
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